All the way through it comes as a shock to hear the characters addressed as 'Marius', 'Cesar' and 'Panisse' in this glossy and interminable travesty of Marcel Pagnol's classic thirties trilogy on which Joshua Logan blew all the capital he'd recently earned on 'South Pacific; for which he went all the way to Joinville but might just as well stayed in Burbank.
Jack Cardiff's Technicolor photography is ravishing, as is Leslie Caron in the title role, she's far too mature and knowing; and as for Horst Bucholz...?!?
Jack Cardiff's Technicolor photography is ravishing, as is Leslie Caron in the title role, she's far too mature and knowing; and as for Horst Bucholz...?!?